hip-17527

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Its story

18 Tauri belongs to the Pleiades, the open cluster long known in Mediterranean folklore as the Seven Sisters. It is a B8V star at around 13,700 K, radiating 160 times the Sun's luminosity, and it orbits surrounded by a debris disk —icy material at 137 astronomical units, detected through its infrared excess—. It is part of one of the youngest and best-studied clusters in the sky, 409 light-years away.

Constellation: Taurus
Apparent magnitude: 5.66
Distance: 409.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 56.291° · Dec 24.839°
Catalogue: HIP 17527 · HD 23324

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